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As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the...

A documentary on modern British farming.

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together...

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation,...

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother...

A young man learns to become a farmer, keen to show the integration of traditional farming with modern science and education.

The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and...

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War...

A stately film about the history of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, with a focus on the architecture and individuals buried there, and the...

Butt-sniffing action abounds as five otherwise ordinary members of the public get in touch with their primal instincts.

A documentary on the English language and it's origins.

Britain's check to the German drive for world domination. The Ministry of Information requested that the film should be withdrawn as it was...

'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.